Epistolary, Cistercian use

Description

Title: Epistolary, Cistercian use
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Epistle readings for the temporale from Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in large round gothic bookhand with red and black accent marks for recitation.
The fourteen full-page miniatures constitute the most extensive extant cycle by the "Spanish Forger". All pages with miniatures have full borders of scrolling acanthus in red, blue, green and purple with hair-spray and gold balls. 3- and 2-line initials, red or blue, with purple or red penwork (6-line on f. 134r). Rubrics throughout.
Binding: Date? Worn red velvet with a silver-gilt crucifix (a fairly recent addition?) on the upper board. Brass clasp engraved with "S. Maria/ ora pro nobis." Rebacked.
Provenance: Belonged to Hannah D. Rabinowitz. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1960 as a gift of the Yale Library Associates.
Extent: ff. ii + 156 + ii : 340 x 240 (242 x 155) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Epistolaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Cistercians
Epistolaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Epistolary, Cistercian Use. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.